Information Explosion & Cloud Storage

Update 8/17/2010: We have published an updated infographic which corrects the math error in the iStack height and Terabyte equations. Please check it out and provide comments and feedback. We appreciate your interaction with the Wikibon community!

Information Explosion & Cloud Storage

Even in 2009’s “Great Recession,” the amount of digital information grew 62% over 2008 to 800 billion gigabytes (0.8 Zettabytes). It is projected that the amount of digital information that will be created in 2010 could fill 75 billion fully-loaded 16 GB Apple iPads.

What’s critical to realize is that 35% more digital information is created today than the capacity exists to store it; and this number will jump to over 60% over the next several years.

While it might seem the responsibility of the consumer, most of these gigabytes of data will pass through the servers, network, or routers of an enterprise at some point. When they do, the enterprise is responsible at that moment for managing that content, protecting user privacy, watching over account information, and protecting copyright.

Best? Something that is blatantly misleading? Hopefully this will fall into the 35% of digital information created today that the capacity does not exist to store it.

And to echo Bhiggy3's comment – Why oh why the iPad? OK if iPads alone were used to store data it would cost a lot and take up a lot of space (Just not as much as you claim) Problem is no-one in their right mind would do this as there are much more cost and space effective options available. By 2020 when I expect the realities of content size will far out-shadow these estimates storage will also have moved on.

iPads are obviously of the now so this is something that people can relate to but when you F**K it up as badly as this you completely fail in what you have set out to do then you really have to question the reliability of any of it – especially as the graphic lists another wikibon article as a source.

http://www.facebook.com/kimbille Kim Bille

1.2 Zettabytes > 900 Exabytes, right?So why is the iStack of the latter much larger than the former??

‘m curious – how is this figure arrived at? Does the existence of “digital information” not require that this information be stored somewhere. at that moment for managing that content, protecting user privacy, watching over account information, and protecting copyright.

http://www.kaltechsolutions.com Kaltech Solutions

Yep, its looking like iPad advert but has some serious information.

http://blogstu.wordpress.com stu

It’s common practice to use something familiar to give people a point of reference. Not too many people play with 1TB drives on a regular basis and a bunch of USB sticks wouldn’t give the same sort of image. Apple had nothing to do with this Infographic, many of us have iPads, but they’ve all been bought with personal $. Note that no elephants were harmed in the making of this Infographic.

http://blog.eukhost.com/webhosting/cloud-storage-provider-how-to-choose/ What is Cloud

Day by day, demand for cloud storage is increasing due to the flexibility, scalability, security and accessibility it offers. I believe cloud storage is the future on online file storage.